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This is a simple idea. Why not have your students make and write nice Christmas cards for each other?
Simply use these templates or have them draw their own.
First, review how to write a card by doing one as a whole class on the board. This will give them an idea of the appropriate register and vocabulary.
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This lesson is simple and a wonderful way to celebrate X-mas.Get more resources/ideas on EFL Classroom's Xmas resource page.
1. Watch The Great Toy Robbery. Put students in pairs and have one watch the screen, the other look away. Partner A describes what he is watching to Partner B who can't see. Switch part way through.
2. Watch…
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Angel vs Devil
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1 Dec 2009
This is a great way for students to practice using sequential transitions (Firstly / Furthermore / last but not least).Great for just speaking practice but also presentation or debate classess.
Provide the class with a list of topics (City living / Exercise / Learning English / being single). Model whole class. The teacher is the Devil and the students the Angel.
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Telling stories is great in the classroom. Add a little "imagination" and chance and you have a great recipe!
Story Dominoes is a great concept. Just get a lot of varying pictures. Cut them up and students in groups of three/four, use them to tell "random" stories.
One student turns over a card to begin. Then the next, turns over a card and continues. Lots…
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Is this yours? Possessives.
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Same Sounds Bingo
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8 Oct 2009First, hand out a list of sixteen homophone pairs to your students, such as tale and tail, night and knight, ect. These lists can be readily found online or you can make your own. You might need to take some time to explain or review the meanings of words on the list. Next, give each student a standard 8.5 X 11 inch (A4) sheet of paper. Folded in half four…
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Sentence Stretching
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25 Sep 2009
This is an excellent writing exercise, getting students to increase the length of their sentences and beginning to use clauses.
Write a simple sentence on the board. Students copy it.
Ex. The dog ran.
Ask the students questions and the students after each question must rewrite the sentence, answering the question.
Ex. Where? The dog ran .............
What color of dog? The ........ dog ran to his…
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Alphabet Organizing
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21 Sep 2009
This is a very simple way to brainstorm and practice vocabulary. Alphabet organizing!
Simply use this handy organizer and get the students to list all the vocab for a certain topic (at the beach, at the restaurant, animals, jobs etc...).
Afterwards, you can use this for assessment or simply play a game of scattegories. Students read out their answers, one at a…
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Torn Pictures…
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14 Sep 2009
This is a wonderfully simple communicative activity.
Get a pile of nice magazine pictures. Next, tear or cut them into twos. Enough halves for the number of students in your classroom.
Then, give each student half a picture. They have to walk around the class describing their picture and finding their torn "match". Once they find their match, they can sit down.
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Guided Writing
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4 Sep 2009
There are many ways to teach writing but one way that I really think provides enough structure for beginning and developing writers is guided writing.
Give students a text with words missing (usually nouns). In groups or pairs they can complete the text together, guessing the words to be filled in. Better yet, if the story has some context or theme.
If the students are…
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